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UMBC Magazine: See The Challenge, Be The Change

Written by Megan Hanks Mastrola Modeled after a national program, UMBC’s Grand Challenge Scholars Program was established in the College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT) in Fall 2016. Over the past six years, the program has expanded, drawing together students from various disciplines to address major challenges that the world is facing. Ranging from engineering better medicines and securing cyberspace…

Posted: July 11, 2022

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Watch: A recap of URCAD 2024

UMBC’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD) returned earlier this month for its 28th year, bringing together more than 400 student presenters and the broader university...

Posted: April 25, 2024, 8:42 AM

CAHSS dean establishes a $400,000 education abroad scholarship

CAHSS students, are you ready to study abroad? Kimberly Moffitt, dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and the Social Sciences (CAHSS), has established the CAHSS Dean’s Education Abroad...

Posted: April 23, 2024, 8:33 AM

UMBC welcomes Candice Hill as new women’s basketball coach

UMBC is excited to announce Candice Hill as the new head coach for UMBC women’s basketball team. Hill is the 11th coach in the history of the program. Hill returns to her home city of...

Posted: April 15, 2024, 10:50 AM

Going the distance—virtual classrooms allow 300 former students to earn their degrees

The onset of COVID-19 brought a tremendous amount of uncertainty about the way students would learn going forward. But within that challenge, UMBC saw a unique opportunity to open its virtual...

Posted: April 11, 2024, 4:20 PM

UMBC-led Aquaculture Research Center donates thousands of pounds of seafood to local food pantries

The Aquaculture Research Center (ARC) at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET), led by Yonathan Zohar, professor of marine biotechnology, has been focused for years on...

Posted: February 22, 2024, 2:51 PM

Résumés in hand, 2,000+ hopeful and prepared Retrievers attend the 2024 Career Fair

On a perfect 55-degree sunny February day, hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students across all colleges stood in a line that began at the RAC and wrapped its way to Sherman Hall. Instead of...

Posted: February 15, 2024, 4:23 PM

For the third time in five years, UMBC is named a Fulbright Top Producing Institution

Within just a few months of living in Piątek, a small town in central Poland, Leah Michaels, M.F.A ’19, intermedia and digital arts, has already traveled to Romania, where many recipients of the...

Posted: February 13, 2024, 11:32 AM

UMBC welcomes Manfred H. M. van Dulmen as new provost and senior vice president

UMBC President Valerie Sheares Ashby has announced that Manfred H. M. van Dulmen will join the university in July as provost and senior vice president. He will succeed interim provost David...

Posted: January 12, 2024, 3:55 PM

UMBC volleyball wins fourth-consecutive America East championship

They may say the best things come in threes, but that’s not good enough for UMBC volleyball. Over the weekend, the number one-seeded Retrievers captured their fourth-straight America East...

Posted: November 21, 2023, 1:48 PM

GRIT-X 2023 explores wide range of UMBC’s research and creative achievement around campus and beyond

Spiders, robots, climate change, Vaudevillian history, and more—this year’s GRIT-X event had something for inquiring minds of all kinds, with explorations into elements of the past, our collective...

Posted: November 7, 2023, 4:53 PM

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